Earthquake hits Taiwan!

And that rendered the Internet down for most of Asia, at least for those sites which require trans-Pacific connections. And while the fixing of the trans-Pacific undersea cables will take approximately 3 weeks, we still have to deal with the continuation of life, the sluggish feel of the Internet, and the irritating CORS system which went kaput itself, totally unconnected to the entire trans-Pacific cable problem.

How interesting that we lay undersea cables which bypass the tectonic plates. But it's kinda inevitable, unless other means of communication are being used (i.e. satellite?)

Whilst most of the people dwell on the slowing of the Internet and how it will affect them and their surfing of overseas sites, we students have to deal with a conked-up CORS system which seemingly got flooded by too much traffic on the opening day of round 1A. I was pretty surprised that even a local site could be hit by the earthquake problem, but thankfully, it wasn't the case.

Seems like the good 'ol problem of too many people who rushed into the CORS system on Wednesday jammed up the server. Haha. This happens all so often, and the previous time was probably 2 semesters ago?

Just some ranting, on a good rainy day. It's kinda windy and cold here, Christmas had arrived in the form of rain instead of snow.

Decisions, decisions. Some things have to be done ASAP.

Current Mood: Cold